2600hz is part of a new movement to turn the data center into the new telco. That’s one way to put it. Another is to realize that our 100-year old phone system is decomposing. And companies like 2600 are providing feature-rich capabilities that make mainstream mechanical offerings seem as antiquated as picking up your mobile and […]
Posted on February 19th, 2013 by admin
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Cylance,a cyber security company founded by former Global McAfee CTO Stuart McClure, has raised $15 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures and Fairhaven Capital. Cylance uses data to help keep core systems healthy. In particular its focus is on critical infrastructure and the types of threats President Barack Obama mentioned in his State […]
Posted on February 19th, 2013 by admin
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Rally Software has acquired Flowdock, a real-time collaboration service designed for developers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Flowdock received $650,000 in seed funding in October 2011 from investors that included IDG Ventures, CrunchFund and a number of individuals including Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos. Rally Software, a SaaS provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) […]
Posted on February 18th, 2013 by admin
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New Relic has some pretty sweet digs in my hometown of Portland, high above the city on the 28th floor of the US Bank Tower. Couches are in the corners for engineers to chat and share ideas. Lacquered, clear-stained tree stumps are set up in another corner, looking over the Willamette River. The office has […]
Posted on February 18th, 2013 by admin
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Google today stepped up its battle to protect its patents, with the latest target a countersuit against BT, the UK incumbent telecoms carrier, along with Ipanema Technologies, which resells some of BT’s services. The suit relates to four patents that Google says are being infringed by enterprise services that BT runs over its IP network, […]
Posted on February 17th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon’s onslaught in disrupting enterprise IT services continues. The company today announced that it would be making Redshift — its cloud-based data warehousing service — widely available, after first launching the product on a limited release at the end of November. The product, part of Amazon Web Services, is aimed both at startups who are […]
Posted on February 17th, 2013 by admin
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Sage Software, facing competition from a host of cloud providers, has sold off $100 million of its “non-CRM” assets to focus on its core ERP and accounting practices. According to IT Business in Canada, Sage has sold three products managed from Sage North America (Sage Act, Sage SalesLogix and the Sage Nonprofit Solutions product suite) […]
Posted on February 16th, 2013 by admin
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GitHub has open-sourced “Boxen,” an automated way to manage newly unboxed Macs for developers. The one-command automation tool promises that a developer can be hacking on GitHub within 30 minutes. The tool follows a trend to offer developer-ready laptops. Dell has developed a laptop built specifically for developers called Project Sputnik. The laptop is now […]
Posted on February 16th, 2013 by admin
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BitTorrent, the once-notorious P2P file-sharing site that has turned a new leaf as a legit, distributed computing provider, is today launching SoShare, a service to send large files from one computer to another, with the first terabyte of files sent free. Out today in beta for Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari for Mac; and Chrome, […]
Posted on February 15th, 2013 by admin
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HipChat has been doing some good things since it was acquired by Atlassian back in March 2012, including updating its iOS apps with much-needed improvements, but the sorry excuse for a Mac app it offered built on Adobe AIR remained a huge sore spot. Today, the company is officially launching its native Mac client in […]
Posted on February 15th, 2013 by admin
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